Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sadly clear that he believes he lost the same military-diplomatic war. The Anglo-American conflict was over the grand question of what shape Europe would assume after the ultimate victory. Macmillan had seen the Poles left to defeat and noted Chamberlain's indifferent impotence with contempt and pity. Then, in mid-1944, he saw decisions made that reflected Franklin Roosevelt's obsessive desire to please Stalin and his "almost pathological suspicions" of British foreign policy, "especially in the Balkans...
...between generations is nothing new. Socrates bitterly attacked youth's "bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for their elders. Children nowadays are tyrants." All through history, denouncing the young has been a tonic for tired blood. More important, defying elders is hygienic for the young. A child's task is self-definition; unless he can distinguish himself from his culture, though on the culture's terms, a boy never quite becomes a man. Growing up is a dialectical process that requires things that one can push against in order to become stronger. It takes limited war against...
...Jean IvlacDonald, a 57-year-old widow, went to jail after defying a court order to let a bank appraise her home. It was a matter of principle, she says; she was held in contempt and sent to Cook County Jail. "As I walked through the gates," she remembers, "I saw female prisoners walking around nude from the waist up-in full view of the male guards." But the exhibitionism was homosexual, not heterosexual. Open lesbianism was standard. "It was unbelievable," says Mrs. Macdonald. "Women would take off their clothes, climb on top of tables and indulge in perversions. They...
...Michael Abdul Malik, a Black Muslim indicted for inciting race hatred, as a "brothel keeper, procurer and property racketeer." That was the truth but it revealed Malik's record before he came to trial-a violation of the law. Times Editor Harold Evans was haled into court on contempt charges...
Evans had cause for concern. In 1963 two London newsmen who had been charged with contempt went to jail for several months. Evans apologized to the court profusely and accepted responsibility. He said, though, that he had not seen the offending caption before it went to press...